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The President checks the power of the Supreme Court by appointing Supreme Court justices and the Chief Justice (subject to Senate confirmation).
The President checks the power of the Supreme Court by appointing Supreme Court justices and the Chief Justice (subject to Senate confirmation).
The US President appoints the Chief Justice of the United States (Supreme Court) with approval of the Senate. The nominee may already be an Associate Justice or may be someone outside the Supreme Court. The Senate must confirm the nomination by a simple majority vote.The process for appointing a Chief Justice is the same as that for appointing an Associate Justice.
He (or she) is nominated by the President of the United States and confirmed by a simple majority (51%) vote of the Senate. All Supreme Court Justices are nominated by the president; no person becomes a Supreme Court Justice without a presidential nomination. Nominees are then voted on by the Senate. If the Senate rejects a nominee, which does happen, then the president chooses another nominee. If the President selects an Associate Justice to become Chief Justice, he or she is said to be "elevated," rather than appointed. The Chief Justice remains Chief Justice until resignation (or death), and the person nominated by the president to take the vacant seat becomes the Chief Justice.
Not necessarily. The President would obviously prefer to fill a Supreme Court vacancy with a justice who shares his (or her) philosophy and ideology; however, some Presidents have been unpleasantly surprised to discover the new justice had different ideals than the President expected. President Eisenhower's appointment of Chief Justice Earl Warren and Justice William J. Brennan, Jr., turned out to be a big disappointment to the conservative President, when he discovered Warren and Brennan were liberals committed to advancing the Civil Rights Movement and incorporating the Bill of Rights to the states. After leaving office, Eisenhower remarked that the two biggest mistakes of his presidency were seated on the Supreme Court. He was referring to Warren and Brennan. Justice David Souter, who retired in 2009, was undoubtedly more liberal than the appointing President, George HW Bush, expected. These are just a few historical examples.
The president checks the supreme court by appointing members of the court.
Warren led the Court to many decisions that supported liberal principles.
Warren led the Court to many decisions that supported liberal principles.
Warren led the Court to many decisions that supported liberal principles.
Warren led the Court to many decisions that supported liberal principles.
Warren led the Court to many decisions that supported liberal principles.
President Dwight D. Eisenhower appointed Chief Justice Earl Warren to the US Supreme Court in 1953 to replace Chief Justice Fred Vinson, who had died in office. Warren wrote the landmark opinion for Brown v. Board of Education, (1954)